On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, at 20:41, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On 2016-03-29 18:52, David Crayford wrote: > > > >>> Tools->Options->Keyboard and Mouse->Emulation->ISPF > >>> > >> Neat! Thanks! > >> Where's the command line? > >> TAB doesn't move to the next field; it inserts a tab in the data. > > > Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! That would infuriate an ISPF power user. > For a mainframe user, occurrence of x'05' in a file is an > unnatural act.
I'm sure that can be changed. I downloaded & skim read sections of the manual yesterday, searching for 'ispf' all the way through (there's an appendix all about it), and 'rexx' where that is mentioned - a few times in the macro programming part of the manual, mainly. You can get the manual at: http://www.slickedit.com/products/slickedit/product-documentation The biggest drawback of the product is cost, though I read that it has perpetual licences rather than annual ones. I'm not sure if there's a separate 'maintenance' cost for getting updated versions. My feeling is that some aspects of converting a rexx ispf macro to slick's C would be quite hard, not the least of which reason is because the C interpreter is strongly data-typed, and one has to eg declare variables (and their type) before use. On the other hand the language has a 'parse' statement & string-handling functions that are near identical to those in REXX. > > All ISPF commands are prefixed with ispf. So "ispf-exclude all" etc, etc. The manual makes it clear that the "ispf-" prefix is rarely needed. > PF5 is RFIND by default. Good. But after RFIND encounters end-of-file > another RFIND just tells me end-of-file again. It doesn't repeat the > search from the top. ISPF's behavior here is my favorite. XEDIT and vi > never tell you about end-of-file; they just start over from the top. And > Slick just tells me "end-of-file" again and again. Surely that's configurable? After all, whether searches wrap around a file is hardly a characteristic unique to ispf edit. There's what look like thousands of config options. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
